What Does the Bible Say About God Intends For Us To Be Happy?

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

2 Peter 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 5:22-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 7:12-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.

John 17:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 25:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Psalm 79:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name's sake!

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

32 Bible Verses about God Intends For Us To Be Happy

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Colossians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 17:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Psalm 79:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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32 Bible Verses about God Intends For Us To Be Happy

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Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Colossians 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 17:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 79:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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